PVP!

[Zarchery]

Hasn't Brenner, a form of PVP in which players reserve an arena and initiate combat at their will, been around since 2005?

[Tezz]

A Card Game IS PVP! See my other thread. ;p (/wishes)

[Imakun]

Thing is jobs in FFXI are created and balanced to work together, not against each other.
FFXI was never a PvP game. If you go back to Ballista or Brenner you'll easily see that some jobs simply didn't have any chance to win.
I personally wouldn't care if they revamped PvP, I'm just not interested in it :P

[Tezz]

I'm for it now. ONLY because everyone who owns everything does nothing in the game but sit in town. Give them something to do. It's kind of sad the ultimate future seems to be sitting in town doing nothing or grinding out something else.

[Dymlos]

If you want to PvP, go play the other billion MMOs out there like WoW, Rift, and Aion.

[Zarchery]

Actually, they should add PVP. They should also make the following additions:

-- Some sort of delivery system so that items and gil can be sent between characters without them being in the same place.

-- A special zone, kind of like a house, which each player can customize to his or her specifications. You can change jobs, take delivery of items, access storage. Since this is a Final Fantasy game, I think it would be cool if you centered it around the ubiquitous moogle characters

-- A mount of some sort for travel over land. Again, since this is Final Fantasy, chocobos seem like a natural choice.

-- Airships, like in Final Fantasy 9, used for moving between major cities. For simplicity, route all this through a central transit hub, such as Jeuno.

-- Some sort of central clearing place, such as an auction house, where you can buy and sell items.

-- Instanced notorious monster fights that you can fight in exchange for treasure. In order to access these, have regular monsters drop some kind of token, and with enough of these tokens, you can buy something that will let you in to the instanced fight.

That's all I have for now. If anyone else wants to kick in some suggestions for adding things to the game that already exist, feel free to jump in.

[Tyi]

Ok PvP does not equal WoW people. It will bring more exploration and things to do when playing the game.

I can definitely say for all us, I'd love a fast quick activity to do while standing around in Jeuno/Whitegate and PvP could be it.

[rog]

Thing is jobs in FFXI are created and balanced to work together, not against each other.
FFXI was never a PvP game.

Pretty much this. There is simply no way to balance pvp to be fair, without destroying the balance in pve.

The best they could really do would be to remove the equipment change limitation in ballista. Beyond that, there simply isn't much they can possibly do, without completely redesigning the game.

[Zarchery]

Ok PvP does not equal WoW people. It will bring more exploration and things to do when playing the game.

I can definitely say for all us, I'd love a fast quick activity to do while standing around in Jeuno/Whitegate and PvP could be it.

So do synthesis. Or do quests. Or farm. Why are you waiting around in town anyway? If you're looking for a party, you can put your seek flag up and go anywhere. Just warp back when you get a /tell. Or if you're standing around listening to /shouts to see if anything exciting will come up, find some out of game activity to while away the time. The only way PVP would occupy your time in this scenario would be for open brawling on the streets of Jeuno.

Or if you *must* indulge in your desire to gank other players, do Brenner.

[Tezz]

Again, also, PVP does not mean straight up fighting. Sports, mini-games, races & gambling etc...

Since it's already in the game as fighting that's likely all they'll expand on, so have at it.